Quote by Havelock Ellis
A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade

A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. – Havelock Ellis

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The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite. – Havelock Ellis

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It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously have traced man back to the Elephant or the Lion or the Antelope, how much ridicule and prejudice would have been spared to the doctrine of Evolution. – Havelock Ellis

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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of ones own religion. – Mahatma Gandhi

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All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by. religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need. – Harvey Cox

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For us to think we can enjoy, understand and practice the Christian religion with just Matthew to Revelation is foolishness. – Randall Terry

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Shelley is truth itself and honour itself notwithstanding his out-of-the-way notions about religion. – George Byron

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It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The Super Bowl is a week-long talk show. – Ira Miller, San Francisco Chronicle, 1979

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The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself. – Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)

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The phrases that men hear or repeat continually, end by becoming convictions and ossify the organs of intelligence. – Johann von Goethe

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